Festivals

Jazz Goes to Town is an international music festival in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, a gem of a town approximately an hour by car or train, northeast of Prague. The five-day festival program this mid October is, as usual, progressive with improvisational and experimental jazz players far out numbering straight-ahead or post-bop groups, and this

Since the release of his current album, “It’s The Peace That Deafens” Ola Onabule’s career has been skyrocketing with major concerts, TV and Radio performances throughout the world. On the Internationales Jazzfestival Leibnitz website, the organisation published...

Editor’s note: Read Peter Beije’s daily roundup overview of his time spent at Jazz Middelheim 2017. DAY 1 Artist in Residence Mark Guiliana opens the festival with his quartet. The drummer is great form, as is tenor saxophonist...

Deeply immersed in the jazz tradition, Borochov’s search for his personal roots resulted in an ever-expanding love for Arab and Pan-African musical sensibilities – a natural palette for a trumpeter-composer raised in Jaffa, an integrated Muslim-Jewish-Christian city....

This year the festival management have extended the festival by 2 days adding extra performances. This years festival will start on August 12th, with two concerts. The festival will open with a concert at the Opera where...

With a low-key presence on stage, there is the young leader Maciej Fortuna on a muted and wired trumpet and live electronics, Roman Chraniuk, on a gorgeous black double bass and live electronics, and Frank Parker is...

The 36th edition of Jazz Middelheim will be held slightly earlier in August than previous editions. “In cooperation with several other international festivals, we try to make sure that the public from all around the world can...

For over three decades, Vancouver’s signature festival has brought the world’s best artists together with audiences to share special experiences. This year, with 300 indoor and outdoor performances, The Festival kicks off the summer with a rousing...

Jazz is rich and diverse; it’s a language that subdivides itself! Having the ability to constantly craft new sounds and rhythms, appealing to a wide audience. The XXI edition of the Valencia Jazz Festival shows this heterogeneity...